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B-17 Flying Fortress
Delivered Cheyenne 29/4/43; Gore 9/5/43; Sioux City 10/5/43; Dow Fd 12/6/43; Assigned 563BS/388BG [--S] Knettishall 18/6/43; Missing in Action Oschersleben 28/7/43 with Ralph Swanson, Co-pilot: Harry Erickson, Navigator: Chas Bergheimer, Bombardier: Norvell Nystrom, Flight engineer/top turret gunner: Phil Kinder, Radio Operator: Fred Ward, Ball turret gunner: Bob Shaw, Waist gunner: Dick Lambrecht, Waist gunner: Chas McMenamin,Tail gunner: Bill Deane (10 Prisoner of War); enemy aircraft, crashed Banteln, near Elze, S of Hanover, Ger; Missing Air Crew Report 3128. JOHNNIE.
Group
The 388th Bomb Group flew strategic bombing mission from Knettishall, Suffolk from June 1943 to the end of the war. During this time, though, detachments were sent to Fersfield, Norfolk to conduct Aphrodite missions. In these Aphrodite missions veteran...
Squadron
Military | Second Lieutenant | Navigator | 388th Bomb Group
Shot down 28 July 1943 in B-17 #4230216. Prisoner of War (POW).
POW
Military | Staff Sergeant | Tail Gunner | 388th Bomb Group
Shot down 28 July 1943 in B-17 #4230216. Prisoner of War (POW).
POW
Military | Second Lieutenant | Co-Pilot | 388th Bomb Group
Shot down 28 July 1943 in B-17 #42-30216, Prisoner of War (POW).
POW
Military | Technical Sergeant | Top Turret Gunner | 388th Bomb Group
Shot down 28 July 1943 in B-17 #4230216. Prisoner of War (POW).
POW
Military | Left Waist Gunner, Waist Gunner | 388th Bomb Group
Military | Sergeant | Right Waist Gunner | 388th Bomb Group
Military | Second Lieutenant | Bombardier | 388th Bomb Group
Shot down 28 July 1943 in B-17 #4230216. Prisoner of War (POW).
POW
Military | Staff Sergeant | Ball Turret Gunner | 388th Bomb Group
Shot down 28 July 1943 in B-17 #4230216. Prisoner of War (POW).
POW
Military | Lieutenant | Pilot | 388th Bomb Group
Shot down 28 July 1943 in B-17 #4230216. Prisoner of War (POW).
POW
Military | Technical Sergeant | Radio Operator | 388th Bomb Group
Shot down 28 July 1943 in B-17 #4230216. Prisoner of War (POW).
POW
Military site : airfield
Knettishall was built to Class A standard for an American Bomb Group that would be bringing up to forty heavy bombers with them in three or four Squadrons. The 388th Bomb Group, which stayed at Knettishall for their entire service in the ETO, flew B-17...
| Event | Location | Date |
|---|---|---|
| Failed to Return (FTR) | Germany | 28 July 1943 |
| Date | Contributor | Update |
|---|---|---|
| 27 September 2014 18:40:27 | AAM | AAM ingest |
| Sources | ||
Dave Osborne, B-17 Fortress Master Log / MACR 3128 / Paul Andrews, Project Bits and Pieces, 8th Air Force Roll of Honor database |
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